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...investigators are elated by the results, but they caution that questions remain. For one thing, does the drug have any untoward side effects after prolonged use? It is known that kindred chemicals can produce birth defects in animals. Thus the drug faces at least two or three years of careful testing before it can be marketed. Still, for those with recurring severe acne, that may not be too long a wait to be spared a lifetime of misery...
...Band. The music is reminiscent of a player piano in an Old Western saloon. The visual accompaniments--particularly the closing shots of The Band, alone on a strangely-lit stage, playing the insipid theme--attempt to evoke a feeling of free-floating nostalgia. This final scene adds an untoward note of solemnity to the affair; Scorsese would have been better off closing with the final number of the concert, the full-company rendition of "I Shall Be Released." The desired arty effect appears both pretentious and rather silly. In another inexplicable scene, The Band plays a pretty song with EmmyLou...
...more infectious in the theater than spontaneous good fun and the warm feeling of sharing the evening with amusing, if slightly disreputable friends. Even by theatrical proxy, there is a certain insidious charm and exoticism in experiencing, through staged illusion, the magic of venturing into forbidden places and untoward happenings that might rarely have been accessible, or perhaps acceptable, in ordinary life. Despite its concupiscent locale and a generous quota of oft-deleted words, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a font of fun and friendliness...
...thing Superman does not have-so far as anyone with plain old 20-20 can see, anyway-is many laughs. Director Donner. convinced that it was campiness that brought down King Kong, is avoiding even the possibility of untoward giggles. Says he: "I was brought up on Superman, and I believe this myth. There is a little bit of God Bless America in it. There is a purity and a fantasy in it that is right for our times." Adds Mankiewicz: "Whatever Jimmy Carter is asking us to be, Superman is already. What we are really giving people...
...François Truffaut really have said, as the ads claim, that Werner Herzog is "the most important living director of our time"? It must be either a practical joke or an act of untoward largesse...